Google Patches Gmail Security Hole
Google has patched a hole in Gmail that was letting people read others e-mail. [Infoworld]
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2005
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iPod Shufle more hype than substance
I am really laughing over how people are going nuts for the iPod Shuffle. If they look at the lack of features for the prices and storage, people would be better off to get a Iriver or a Yepp at least they will have a useful device that isn't limited to playing music for just a few dollars more. [Wired]
Nasa Launches Comet Smasher
Deep Impact launched yesterday for 6-month trip to a planned head on collision with a comet. Scientist are expecting an amazing show when the two objects collide at 23,000 mph. [SiliconValley.com]
T-Mobile Servers breached by Hacker
Seems a hacker had access to the T-Mobile network for over a year, he was eventually caught by hasn't T-Mobile informed their customers that a hacker had access to all of our customer information for well over a year. This pisses me of quite a bit to read about this on the Net versus getting a letter from T-Mobile. T-Mobile
My Great MacWorld Adventure Day 3: Photos
The Third Day at MacWorld Expo brought me more conversations and information. I'll put them together in the next few days, until then, here are the Expo photos I took yesterday while on the floor. Please Click here for the photos.
Videos Quick, Easy and Automatic!
If you are missing your favorite Torrent tracking sites. You are not alone. If your looking for a new way to download video's, then you need to check out this article by Wired on a new application called Videora. [Wired]
Podcast Torrent Feeds!
Geek News Central will be introducing a permanent BitTorrent feed for our future podcast. If you want to help us out and hopefully save us some bandwidth re-direct your Geek News Central Podcasting RSS feed to the following url https://www.geeknewscentral.com/torrent.xml We are considering making this feed a high bitrate feed. If we see enough utilization and seeders we will consider
New iTunes Deletes Songs without DRM
Their are a few pissed off people this morning. It seems, some people have been buying music from Apple iTunes, then stripping the DRM info with a utility from the Hymn project. The latest iTunes update is removing files that have had the DRM info stripped out of the AAC files. I just wonder if iTunes is expecting DRM info
SnagIt gets a monster update
SnagIt gets a monster update TechSmith has released SnagIt 7.2 and it is amonster update - worthy of a far more significant version number like 7.5 or even 8.0! There are so many new featuresthat you really ought to visit the Whatâ
My Great MacWorld Adventure Day 2: Keynote Notes
I am certain that you have all heard of the top Apple news from the Steve Jobs Keynote. I wanted to go over the details of the announcements and give you my take on them. The press pass I had was not a guarantee to get into the Keynote, we were placed in a press overflow room with closed circuit
Kenosis beyond BitTorrent with Torrent Capabilities
Very interesting read on a Torrent type client that does not need a Tracker... [Kenosis]
20 Years of Usenet!
To archive 20 years of Usenet newsgroups has to be considered one of the major feats ever completed. Google has done what would have been unimaginable a few years ago. The question I have is where did they get all of the archives from. I did some searches on topics that I was involved in apporx 10 years ago and
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